Karthik Ganesan is a staff-2 performance engineer at VMware R&D with a focus on vSphere performance. Before joining VMware, he was a principal engineer at Oracle, where he led many successful cross-stack performance projects. Karthik has broad experience in cloud systems performance with special interests in resource management, operating system, middleware, virtualization, and hardware acceleration. Karthik obtained his PhD in computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He holds multiple US patents and has given talks and published book chapters and numerous papers at reputed computer science conferences.